there may be other costs associated with it, but you help the deficit. in the irs that's not the case. when you cut the budget at the irs, your deficit is increased for the country. that's a factor. two more factors to sort of set the stage here. leadership, the evolution of the leadership of the service. the government has operated for years or did operate for years with, in essence, a defined benefit pension plan. people who joined the irs before the early '80s, they had handcuffs, as all government employees did. there were very real incentives to stay, to get their 30 years in, to be 55 years of age. that plan was changed in the early '80s so that it became more like a 401(k). i did my first stint in government starting in '82. i was a kid working in the reagan administration, and after about six months a personnel officer came in and said, jeez, you ought to convert over to this new retirement plan. well, it produced in me a lifelong distrust of personnel folks -- [laughter] and also was a reflection on just how young and knuckleheaded i was. i conv